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    Racial Profiling

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    Should Racial Profiling be a Legitimate Law-Enforcement Policy? Racial profiling is an act where all people of a certain race are treated as criminal suspects by those of law enforcement. This occurs when police investigate‚ stop‚ frisk search or use force against a person based on race instead of a person’s criminal behavior. It often involves the stopping and searching of people of color for traffic violations. One controversial issue in the discussion of racial profiling has been how to prove

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    Counselling In Prisons

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    Elizabeth Zoccole Are Counseling Program Available in Prisons of Various Security Levels? Introduction and Abstract With respect to the topic of drug and alcohol awareness programs being available in state‚ federal or local prisons‚ the five articles that are stated below contain relevant and statistical information. Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 3 out 4 State and 4 out 5 Federal prisoners may be categorized as alcohol or drug involved offenders. If such programs are put in place

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    Prison Environment

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    Prison Environment Jennifer O’Neal CJS 230 Jean O’Gallagher July 21‚ 2011 Prison is a cramped‚ confined‚ and sometimes dangerous environment. There are prison rules (prison code) and for the majority of the prisons there are inmate rules (inmate code). When prison rules are broken‚ inmates are charged accordingly with reprimands. When inmate code is broken inmates are subject to attack by other inmates‚ which will lead to injury or possibly death. In prison‚ there is no privacy. Inmates are

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    China's population

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    china’s population has changed over time? China’s population is at once its greatest asset as well as its most significant challenge. This is as true today as the twenty-first century begins as it has been for much of China’s history. Although there are not absolutely reliable historical census numbers for China‚ certain patterns emerge as one examines China’s imperial demographic path from 60 million people two thousand years ago passing the one billion mark in recent times. China is world`s most

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    Prison overcrowding

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    California Prison Overcrowding December 16th‚ 2013 Prison Overcrowding in California Alarming issues that causes society to stir up continue to expand every day. Some of these issuesinclude the educational system‚ existing healthcare laws‚ unemployment and economic matters‚and the water crisis… all of which are major problems in California. One major problem‚ however‚ is often ignored. Over the past two to three decades‚ California’s prison population has grown by 750 percent (“California’s

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    Population Determinants

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    Nations Population Fund (2007)‚ “In 2008‚ for the first time in history‚ more than half of the world’s population will be living in towns and cities. By 2030 this number will swell to almost 5 billion‚ with urban growth concentrated in Africa and Asia.” There are many factors that affect the increase or decrease of a population. Common factors include birthrate‚ medical advances‚ productivity‚ and so on. There have been a lot of debates and discussions as to whether an increase in population is good

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    Racial Stereotypes

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    Racial prejudice was defined by Allport ‚ one of the first researchers in psychology to investigate the issue‚ as "an aversive or hostile attitude towards a person who belongs to a group‚ simply because he or she belongs to that group‚ and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group. It is an antipathy based on a faulty and inflexible generalization" (Allport‚ 1954). Racial prejudice exists on 3 levels: behavioral‚ cognitive and affective. The actual discrimination

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    Prison Education

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    Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2009 University of Wisconsin La-Crosse La-Crosse‚ Wisconsin April 16 - 18‚ 2009 Prison Culture‚ Education‚ and Recidivism Rates Caleb L. Fry and Lauren T. Rios Department of Anthropology Lake Tahoe Community College One College Drive South Lake Tahoe‚ California 96150 USA Faculty Advisor: Daryl G. Frazetti Abstract Given the number of inmates in the prison system and the high level of recidivism‚ it is important to seek out possible solutions to this growing problem

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    The Population Problem

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    The Population Problem Two hundred years ago‚ Thomas Malthus‚ in An Essay on the Principle of Population‚ reached the conclusion that the number of people in the world will increase exponentially‚ while the ability to feed these people will only increase arithmetically (21). Current evidence shows that this theory may not be far from the truth. For example‚ between 1950 and 1984‚ the total amount of grain produced more than doubled‚ much more than the increase in population in those 34 years.

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is a problem largely attributed to the increase of drug convictions. Decades of tough-on-crime laws coupled with minimal financing for treatment programs have left prisons overcrowded and under funded. With the advent of crack cocaine and the response of a scared nation President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs in 1982 (Clear‚ Cole‚ & Reisig‚ 2009). In 1987 congress implemented mandatory minimum sentencing effectively increasing the time

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